You can sit there and let five innocent people die, or you can actively cause the death of one innocent person. What do you do?
Additional Resources
The Guardian on the Trolley Problem: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/dec/12/the-trolley-problem-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-many-others
Philippa Foot: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/
Consequentialism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/#ClaUti
Deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
Human cause more self-driving accidents than humans (proportionately): https://fortune.com/2018/08/29/self-driving-car-accidents/
Theme music is "Levitation" by Mabeha. Listen to the track here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0YS8xR9oPMtUvQj3C4wKHZ?si=jz4eZ9fWTE6F-Wrdl7rb9A
